Flood water caused by heavy rains in Dubai. April 17, 2024. REUTERS/Amr Alfiky |
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- The United Arab Emirates is grappling with the aftermath of a record-breaking storm this week that brought much of the country to a standstill. In Dubai, operations at the airport remain disrupted after Tuesday's storm flooded the runway, resulting in flight diversions, delays and cancellations.
- Israel will make its own decisions about how to defend itself, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said, as Western countries pleaded for restraint in responding to Iran's missile and drone attack. European Union leaders decided to step up sanctions against Tehran. Follow the latest here.
- An Assyrian church bishop who was stabbed during a service at his church in Sydney said he was recovering quickly, and that he had forgiven his attacker. Meanwhile, Sydney's Bondi Westfield mall reopened for tributes after a man with a knife killed six people there on Saturday.
- Indonesia shut an airport and evacuated hundreds of people from the vicinity of the Ruang volcano after it belched explosive plumes of lava, rocks and ash, officials said, declaring the highest alert on the situation. Purple flashes of lightning rent the sky above the volcano, videos on social media showed.
- As coral reefs reach an alarming tipping point, Climate and Environment Correspondent Gloria Dickie joins the Reuters World News podcast to explain the fourth global bleaching event in the last three decades. We also look at how Brazil, spared during previous global bleaching events, is bracing for this one.
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- A decade ago, Greece was in the throes of a devastating debt crisis marked by years of austerity, hardship and unrest. Now, officials and investors say 2024 could be the year its rebound is finally complete. The Greek economy is forecast to grow nearly 3% this year, far outpacing the euro zone average of 0.8%.
- Taiwanese chipmaker TSMC posted a 9% rise in first-quarter net profit that beat market expectations as it rides a wave of demand for semiconductors. The world's largest contract chipmaker has benefited from a surge towards AI that has helped it weather the tapering off of pandemic-led electronics demand.
- Tesla is seizing upon an obscure provision in corporate law to attempt to restore Elon Musk's $56 billion pay package, in an untested move that could again mire the company in litigation, experts said. The EV maker proposed putting Musk's 2018 pay deal to a shareholder vote, even though a Delaware judge voided it.
- Google is laying off an unspecified number of employees, a company spokesperson said, marking the latest cuts at the technology giant as it cracks down on costs. The layoffs follow a slew of job cuts across Google, and the tech and media industry this year.
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In a rebel-held Myanmar town, fragile unity pushes junta to the brink |
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A soldier from the Karen National Liberation Army carries an RPG launcher at a military base on the outskirts of Myawaddy. REUTERS/Athit Perawongmetha |
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Myawaddy, a critical trading post in Myanmar that rebel forces seized from the ruling junta last week, offers a glimpse of dynamics playing out across the Southeast Asian country as its vaunted military reels from battlefield losses. At the border town's outskirts, abandoned homes sat next to buildings pockmarked with bullet holes, gas stations damaged by blasts and structures flattened by airstrikes, Reuters reporters saw on a visit this week. |
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The washed-up carcass of a Ichthyotitan severnensis, a species of marine reptile that lived 202 million years ago. Sergey Krasovskiy/Handout via REUTERS |
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A fossil jawbone found by a British girl and her father on a beach in England belongs to a gigantic marine reptile dating to 202 million years ago that appears to have been among the largest animals ever on Earth. Researchers said the bone, called a surangular, was from a type of ocean-going reptile called an ichthyosaur. |
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